⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria^(A) captured Samaria^(B) and deported^(C) the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan^(D) on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

¹³ The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”^(A)